See-through Smoker

from Speechless by Andy White

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lyrics

The see-through skin
of a strict smoker
in the second class
smoking section
is so see-through...
the see-through skin
of a strict smoker
in the second class
smoking section
is so see-through
that he may well
be dead already
as he is so slumped
so slumped is he
see-through eyes shut
deep in the second class
smoking section

He’s dead already
thus avoiding one or more
major diseases
and of course serious steady
cigarette expenditure
diurnal
hebdomidal
mensual
seasonal and annual
cigarette expenditure

The skin of the
see-through second class smoker
could have been fashioned
by Mr Phillip Morris himself
so multinational and
interdenominational is its
translucence and its
pallor

So brief may have been the
strict cigarette smoker’s
stay upon this earth that
he should have stuck himself
in the first class smoking section
and splashed out
while it lasted

But hark!
The sleeper stirs
and rubs his
sleepy translucent eyelids
stretches his
see-through skin
and reaches around
struggling for another
shot

With his see-through skin
in the second class smoking section
the strict smoker
will fight
to live
another day

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from Speechless, track released April 4, 2000

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Andy White Belfast, UK

Belfast songwriter, has guitar wants to travel. Latest album - Good Luck I Hope You Make It

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